Hello Pure Vidz community!
Today we've updated our whitepaper detailing a lot more information about our plans and how certain things will work.
http://purevidz.net/info/introSpecifically, we've updated our
Finances section heavily going into more detail. This is a topic that investors would most be concerned about so we tried to give as much information as possible. This section details how our infrastructure will produce revenue and how VIDZ holders will directly benefit from it. If there are any questions about the information in this section, please ask for clarification!
A new section that'd been added is
Bounties Ecosystem which describes the VIDZ bounty ecosystem of our site. Quoting directly from it,
Bounties are a great way for users of the website to influence what is added and to ensure that content is added at a healthy rate to the service to keep users entertained and the site running smoothly. To help with this, there are actually a number of types of bounties each of which work in slightly different ways. Contributors to the site may always view a list of available bounties ordered by their value. When these requests are filled and a moderator confirms the content is working, properly formatted and properly tagged then the bounty is split between the person who submits the torrent (75%), the moderator who reviewed it (12.5%) and the development fund (12.5%).
Since the topic of how Pure Vidz compares to traditional streaming index websites such as VidTo.me, VidUp, etc. has come up quite frequently in the thread, we've gone into more detail about this in our section
Pure Vidz vs Traditional Streaming.
Along with our updated whitepaper, over the last few days we've been rolling out several small updates, tweaks and fixes to the site as we work towards our official release. Listing the differences since demo 2,
- Template has been altered slightly to better fit our new content
- Support for Television shows in terms of submitting torrents
- The ability to navigate through "Next/Previous" episodes with full season torrents
- Genre tagging
- Advanced search query: Ability to search by genre/title (more criteria will be added later)
- Recommended content system: Streamlined recommendations based on similarities (the algorithm being used currently is very basic focusing only on genre, as we move towards the official release this will be altered to factor in things such as movie rating so that a 'G' rated movie doesn't recommend an 'R', user tag, recurring actors, etc.)
- Pagination to easily navigate through all pages of content
We are going to continue working on behind the scene infrastructure (such as the algorithm changes to recommended content) as we move into the new year and get closer to the end of our sale and our initial official release. There will continue to be subtle changes done to the site over this duration as seen from demo 2 to the point we're at now, however no drastic changes such as the jump from demo 1 to demo 2 will occur until we're ready for the official release.
We thank those who've already supported us by contributing towards the crowdfund, followed us on Twitter, participated in our Twitter bounty and shared us with their peers. Please continue to enjoy the content on our site as we work towards the official release of Pure Vidz.
Happy holidays, and a Merry Christmas in advance to those who celebrate!